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{{Infobox person | name = Adrian Bejan | caption = Franklin Institute 2018 | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1948}} | birth_place = Galaţi, Romania | image = Photo Adrian Bejan at The Franklin Institute 2018.jpg | known_for = {{plainlist| * Evolution, as Physics * Constructal Law * Design in Nature * Thermodynamics * Heat transfer }} | awards = {{plainlist| *Max Jakob Memorial Award (1999) *Worcester Reed Warner Medal (1996) *Benjamin Franklin Medal (2018) *Humboldt Research Award (2019) }} | education = MIT (1971, 1972, 1975) | occupation = Distinguished Professor at Duke University }}
'''Adrian Bejan''' is a Romanian-American professor who has made contributions to modern thermodynamics and developed the constructal law. He is J. A. Jones Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Duke University<ref name="Ephrat">{{cite web |last1=Livni |first1=Ephrat |title=Everything, including the growing income disparity, can be explained by physics |url=https://qz.com/957711/everything-including-the-growing-income-disparity-can-be-explained-by-physics/ |website=Quartz |date=23 September 2017 |publisher=Quartz Media LLC |access-date=25 September 2017}}</ref><ref name="Duke webpage" /> and author of the books ''Design in Nature'',<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bejan |first=Adrian |title=Design in nature : how the constructal law governs evolution in biology, physics, technology, and social organization |date=2013 |publisher=Doubleday |others=J. Peder Zane |isbn=978-0-307-74434-0 |edition= |location=New York |oclc=788289357}}</ref> ''The Physics of Life'' <ref name="Bejan_PoL">{{cite book|last1=Bejan|first1=Adrian|title=The Physics of Life: The Evolution of Everything|date=24 May 2016|publisher=St. Martin's Press|isbn=978-1250078827|url=https://us.macmillan.com/thephysicsoflife/adrianbejan/9781466891340/|access-date=28 August 2020|archive-date=2 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171002215617/https://us.macmillan.com/thephysicsoflife/adrianbejan/9781466891340/|url-status=dead}}</ref>'', Freedom and Evolution'' <ref name=":1">{{Cite book|last=Bejan|first=Adrian|title=Freedom and Evolution: Hierarchy in Nature, Society and Science|publisher=Springer|year=2020|isbn=978-3-030-34008-7|location=New York}}</ref> and ''Time And Beauty''.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Bejan |first=Adrian |title=Time and beauty : why time flies and beauty never dies |date=2022 |isbn=978-981-12-4547-3 |publisher=World Scientific |location=New Jersey |oclc=1302102371}}</ref> He is an Honorary Member <ref name="ASMEhonorary">{{cite press release |title=Adrian Bejan Presented with ASME Honorary Membership |date=21 November 2011 |publisher=The American Society of Mechanical Engineers |url=https://www.asme.org/about-asme/participate/honors-awards/press-releases/adrian-bejan-presented-with-asme-honorary-membersh |access-date=4 December 2017}}</ref> of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Medal and the [https://www.asme.org/about-asme/media-inquiries/press-releases/duke-university-professor-adrian-bejan-receives-asme-medal ASME Medal].
==Early life and education==
Bejan was born in Galaţi, a city on the Danube in Romania. His mother, Marioara Bejan (1914–1998), was a pharmacist.<ref name="Ephrat"/><ref name=Bejan_60 /> His father, Dr. Anghel Bejan (1910–1976), was a veterinarian.<ref name="Bejan_60" /> Bejan showed an early talent in drawing, and his parents enrolled him in art school. He also excelled in basketball, which earned him a position on the Romanian national basketball team.<ref name=Bejan_60 /><ref name=Basket>{{cite web|title=Adrian Bejan a realizat performanta in stiinta cu ajutorul baschetului!|url=http://www.frbaschet.ro/stiri/2014-02-22/adrian-bejan-a-realizat-performanta-in-stiinta-cu-ajutorul-baschetului|publisher=Federatia Romana de Baschet|access-date=1 August 2015|archive-date=27 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170927112227/http://www.frbaschet.ro/stiri/2014-02-22/adrian-bejan-a-realizat-performanta-in-stiinta-cu-ajutorul-baschetului|url-status=dead}}</ref>
At age 19 Bejan won a scholarship to the United States and entered Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts.<ref name=Bejan_60 /> In 1972 he was awarded BS and MS degrees as a member of the Honors Course in Mechanical Engineering.<ref name="Duke webpage">{{cite web |title=Adrian Bejan - Duke Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science |url=http://mems.duke.edu/faculty/adrian-bejan |publisher=Duke University |access-date=11 December 2017}}</ref><ref name="Bejan_60">{{cite journal |last1=Lage |first1=José L. |last2=Anderson |first2=Ren |last3=Costa |first3=Vitor |last4=Errera|first4=Marcelo R.|last5=Fowler|first5=Alex J.|last6=Gosselin|first6=Louis|last7=Kimura|first7=Shigeo|last8=Ledezma|first8=Gustavo A.|last9=Lim|first9=Jong S.|last10=Lorente|first10=Sylvie|last11=Miguel|first11=Antonio|last12=Minkowycz|first12=W.J.|last13=Morega|first13=Alexandru M.|last14=Bello-Ochende|first14=Tunde|last15=Ordóñez|first15=Juan C.|last16=Poulikakos|first16=Dimos|last17=Reis|first17=Heitor|last18=Rocha|first18=Luiz A.O.|last19=da Silva|first19=Alexandre K.|last20=Trevisan|first20=Osvair V.|last21=Vargas|first21=José V.|last22=Wechsatol|first22=Wishsanuruk|last23=Zhang|first23=Zongqin |title=Professor Adrian Bejan on his 60th birthday |journal=International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer |display-authors=3 |volume=51 |issue=25–26 |year=2008 |pages=5759–5761 |issn=0017-9310 |doi=10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2008.06.027|doi-access=free|bibcode=2008IJHMT..51.5759L }}</ref> He graduated in 1975 with a PhD from MIT a thesis titled "Improved thermal design of the cryogenic cooling system for a superconducting synchronous generator". His advisor was Joseph L. Smith Jr.,<ref>{{cite thesis |type=PhD |last=Bejan |first=Adrian |date=1974 |title=Improved thermal design of the cryogenic cooling system for a superconducting synchronous generator |url=https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/16445/01922225-MIT.pdf |publisher=Massachusetts Institute of Technology}}</ref> a disciple of Prof. Joseph H. Keenan.
==Career== From 1976 to 1978 Bejan was a Miller research fellow in at the University of California Berkeley working with Chang-Lin Tien.<ref name=Bejan_60 /> In 1978 he moved to Colorado and joined the faculty of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado in Boulder. In 1982 Bejan published his first book, ''Entropy Generation Through Heat and Fluid Flow''. The book is aimed at practical applications of the second law of thermodynamics, and presented his ideas on irreversibility, availability and exergy analysis in a form for engineers.<ref name=Bejan_60 /> In 1984 he published the first edition of ''Convection Heat Transfer'''. In an era when researchers did heat transfer calculations using numerical methods on supercomputers, the book emphasized new research methods such as intersection of asymptotes, heatlines, and scale analysis to solve problems.<ref name=Bejan_60 />
Bejan was appointed full professor at Duke University in 1984. In 1988 he published the first edition of his textbook ''Advanced Engineering Thermodynamics''. The book combined thermodynamics theory with engineering heat transfer and fluid mechanics, and introduced entropy generation minimization as a method of optimization.<ref name=Bejan_60 /> In 1996 the ASME awarded him the Worcester Reed Warner Medal for "originality, challenges to orthodoxy, and impact on thermodynamics and heat transfer, which were made through his first three books".<ref>{{cite web |title=Worcester Reed Warner Medal. American Society of Mechanical Engineers |url=https://scholars.duke.edu/display/awdrec22794 |work=Scholars@Duke |publisher=Duke University |access-date=11 December 2017}}</ref>
In 1989 Bejan was appointed the J. A. Jones Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering. In 1988 and 1989, his peers named two dimensionless groups ''Bejan number (Be),'' in two different fields: for the pressure difference group, in heat transfer by forced convection, and for the dimensionless ratio of fluid friction irreversibility divided by heat transfer irreversibility, in thermodynamics.<ref name="Duke webpage" /> From 1992 to 1996 he published four more books, ''Convection in Porous Media'', ''Heat Transfer'', ''Thermal Design and Optimization'' and ''Entropy Generation Minimization''.<ref name=Bejan_60 />
==Constructal law== In 1995<ref name=Bejan_60 /> while reviewing entropy generation minimization for a symposium paper and writing another paper on the cooling of electronic components, Bejan formulated the '''constructal law'''.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Bejan|first=Adrian|title=Street network theory of organization in nature|journal=Journal of Advanced Transportation|year=1996 |publication-date=1996|volume=30|issue=2|pages=85–107|doi=10.1002/atr.5670300207|doi-access=}}</ref><ref name="Bejan1997" /> The constructal law is an organizing design principle by which natural phenomena as well as human designed systems will ''evolve'' in a way that facilitates the flow of energy and material passing through it.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bejan |first=Adrian |title=Shape and structure, from engineering to nature |date=2000 |publisher=Cambridge Univ. Press |isbn=978-0-521-79388-9 |edition=1. publ |location=Cambridge}}</ref><ref name="ref3">Bejan, A. (2016) Life and evolution as physics. Communicative & Integrative Biology, 9(3), e1172159</ref> As an example, for electronic components too small for convective cooling, they must be designed for efficient conduction. The 1995 paper provides a method for efficiently designing conductive paths, from smaller paths leading to larger ones. The similarity of the solution to the branching structures seen in multiple inanimate and living things led to his statement of what he calls a new law of nature: "For a finite-size system to persist in time (to live), it must evolve in such a way that it provides easier access to the imposed (global) currents that flow through it."<ref name=":0" /><ref name="Bejan1997" /> To emphasize the coming together of paths he called the theory ''constructal'' from the Latin verb "to construct", the opposite time direction of ''fractal'' from the Latin "to break".<ref name=":0" /><ref name="Bejan1997">{{cite journal |last1=Bejan |first1=Adrian |title=Constructal-theory network of conducting paths for cooling a heat generating volume |journal=International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer |volume=40 |issue=4 |year=1997 |pages=799–816 |issn=0017-9310 |doi=10.1016/0017-9310(96)00175-5|bibcode=1997IJHMT..4099813B }}</ref>
Bejan incorporated his constructal law into the second edition of his textbook, ''Advanced Engineering Thermodynamics'' (1997).<ref name=Bejan_60 /> He continued thermodynamics and its constructal law and implications.<ref name=Bejan_60 /> In 2004, he published ''Porous and Complex Flow Structures in Modern Technologies''.<ref name=Bejan_60 /> The same year, he and Sylvie Lorente were awarded the Edward F. Obert Award by the ASME for their paper "Thermodynamic Formulation of the Constructal Law"<ref name="Duke webpage" /> In 2008 he published ''Design with Constructal Theory''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bejan |first1=Adrian |author2=Sylvie Lorente |title=Design with Constructal Theory |date=2008 |publisher=Wiley |page=xv|isbn=978-0-471-99816-7}}</ref>
=== Awards for Constructal Law === In 2011 the American Society of Mechanical Engineers presented him with an honorary membership. He was cited for "an extraordinary record of creative work, including the unification of thermodynamics and heat transfer; the conceptual development of design as a science that unites all fields; legendary contributions to engineering education; and, since 1996, the discovery and continued development of the constructal law."<ref name="ASMEhonorary" />
Bejan has also written books for the general audience. In 2012 he published ''Design in Nature: How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Technology, and Social Organization'' and in 2016 ''The Physics of Life: The Evolution of Everything''.<ref name="Ephrat" /> Bejan's books for the general audience continued with ''Freedom and Evolution, Hierarchy in Nature, Society and Science'' (2020),<ref name=":1" /> and ''Time and Beauty, Why Time Flies and Beauty Never Dies'' (2022).<ref name=":2" /> He credits these books for his award of the Ralph Coats Roe Medal from the ASME in 2017.<ref>{{cite press release |title=Bejan Wins 2017 Ralph Coats Roe Medal |url=http://pratt.duke.edu/news/bejan-wins-2017-ralph-coats-roe-medal |publisher=Duke University |date=20 September 2017 |access-date=12 December 2017}}</ref> He was cited for "permanent contributions to the public appreciation of the pivotal role of engineering in an advanced society through outstanding accomplishments as an engineering scientist and educator, renowned communicator and prolific writer".<ref>{{cite web |title=Ralph Coats Roe Medal. American Society of Mechanical Engineers |url=https://scholars.duke.edu/display/awdrec22783 |work=Scholars@Duke |publisher=Duke University |access-date=12 December 2017}}</ref>
In November 2017 the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia announced that Bejan would be awarded the 2018 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Mechanical Engineering.<ref>{{cite press release |title=Bejan Named 2018 Franklin Institute Award Laureate |url=https://pratt.duke.edu/news/bejan-franklin-institute-award |publisher=Duke University |date=7 November 2017 |access-date=12 December 2017}}</ref> He was cited for "his pioneering interdisciplinary contributions in thermodynamics and convection heat transfer that have improved the performance of engineering systems, and for constructal theory, which predicts natural design and its evolution in engineering, scientific, and social systems."<ref>{{cite web |title=Adrian Bejan - The Franklin Institute |url=https://www.fi.edu/laureates/adrian-bejan |publisher=The Franklin Institute |access-date=11 December 2017|date=2 November 2017 }}</ref>
On 27 June 2019, in Berlin, the Humboldt Foundation awarded Bejan the Humboldt Research Award for lifetime achievement. He was cited for "his pioneering contributions to modern thermodynamics and "Constructal Law" – a law of physics that predicts natural design and its evolution in biology, geophysics, climate change, technology, social organization, evolutionary design and development, wealth and sustainability".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://pratt.duke.edu/about/news/bejan-humboldt|title="Bejan Receives Humboldt Research Award for Lifetime Achievement" (Press release). Duke University. 1 March 2019.|work=Duke Pratt School of Engineering |date=3 July 2019}}</ref>
On 30 December 2019, in Ankara, the Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA) awarded Bejan the TÜBA International Academy Prize in the category of Basic and Engineering Sciences "for his remarkable number of creative works such as combining thermodynamics and heat transfer in the field of thermodynamics, developing design as a science that brings together all fields, and putting forth "Constructal Theory".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tuba.gov.tr/en/news/about-academy/2019-tuba-awards-announced|title=2019 TÜBA Awards Announced|date=24 December 2019|website=Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA)}}</ref>
On 20 February 2020, in Durham, the French government awarded Bejan the title of Knight of the French Order of Academic Palms.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Acad_Main/News/Adrian%20Bejan|title=Presentation of the Academic Palms to Adrian Bejan of Duke University|date=20 February 2020|website=Presentation of the Academic Palms to Adrian Bejan of Duke University}}</ref>
On 18 July 2021, the International Association for Green Energy (IAGE) gave Bejan the IAGE Lifetime Achievement Award “For revolutionary contributions to thermal sciences through entropy generation minimization and the original development of a new law in physics, the constructal law, for predicting natural design and its evolution as climate, social ecosystems, and sustainability.”<ref>{{Cite web|title=IAGE Lifetime Achievement Award|url=http://www.iage-net.org/iage-lifetime-achievement-award|access-date=2021-07-26|website=International Association for Green Energy|language=en-US}}</ref>
In September 2023, peers from many countries reviewed Bejan's scholarly legacy on the occasion of his 75th birthday.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Lage |first1=José L. |last2=Worek |first2=William M. |last3=Amon |first3=Cristina H. |last4=Awad |first4=Mohamed M. |last5=Basak |first5=Tanmay |last6=Bayazitoglu |first6=Yildiz |last7=Bello-Ochende |first7=Tunde |last8=Biserni |first8=Cesare |last9=Bonjour |first9=Jocelyn |last10=Borchiellini |first10=Romano |last11=Çetkin |first11=Erdal |last12=Charles |first12=Jordan |last13=Chen |first13=Yanyu |last14=Chow |first14=W.K. |last15=Chun |first15=Jack |date=December 2023 |title=Professor Adrian Bejan on his 75th birthday |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0735193323005511 |journal=International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer |language=en |publication-date=December 2023 |volume=149 |article-number=107162 |doi=10.1016/j.icheatmasstransfer.2023.107162|bibcode=2023ICHMT.14907162L |url-access=subscription }}</ref>
In April 2024, Duke University honored Bejan for excellence in teaching and research.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Duke |first=University |date=April 26, 2024 |title=Capers and Marion McDonald Award for Excellence in Teaching and Research |url=https://www.linkedin.com/posts/duke-engineering_dukeengineering-mems-activity-7203421076368867328-b1uf?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop}}</ref>
On 26 August 2024, Adrian Bejan was named the 2024 recipient of The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Medal.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |date=Aug 26, 2024 |title=Duke University Professor Adrian Bejan Receives ASME Medal |url=https://www.asme.org/about-asme/media-inquiries/press-releases/duke-university-professor-adrian-bejan-receives-asme-medal}}</ref> The award, established in 1920, is the highest award that the Society can bestow and recognizes eminently distinguished engineering achievement. Bejan is honored for “unprecedented creativity, breadth, and permanent impact on engineering; for developments in the new science of energy, motion, form, and evolution; and for building bridges to design in biological, geophysical, and sociological systems. Bejan is credited with several groundbreaking developments. He unified thermodynamics with heat transfer, fluid dynamics, and the science of form (i.e., flow configuration, image, design), as a counterweight to the doctrine of reductionism; discovered, taught, and applied the Constructal Law of evolution in nature; and brought together biologists, physicists, engineers, sociologists, philosophers, economists, managers, and athletes with creative books for the public, including Design in Nature (2012), The Physics of Life (2016), Freedom and Evolution (2020), and Time and Beauty (2022). His influential work and prolific publication record have earned him 18 honorary doctorates from 11 countries. He holds a position among the top 0.01% of most-cited and impactful scientists, is the sixth most impactful scholar in mechanical engineering worldwide, and the 11th across all engineering disciplines, according to the citations impact database in PLOS Biology.”
At a public ceremony on 9 October 2024 in Bucharest, the Romanian Basketball Federation conferred upon Prof. Bejan the Title of Excellence: "For promoting the role of sport in achieving excellence in academia, and his remarkable contributions to combining science and sport, embodying in his career as physicist and basketball player an exceptional synergy between the laws of physics and the dynamics of sport. Through his innovative studies and the applicability of constructal theory in the field of movement, he opened new horizons for understanding and optimizing performance in sport in general, and in basketball in particular. The Romanian Basketball Federation recognizes his academic excellence and the impact he had on the evolution of basketball from a scientific and educational perspective."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Agerpres |date=October 9, 2024 |title=Federaţia Română de Baschet a acordat, miercuri, în cadrul unei ceremonii care a avut loc la sediul FRB, titluri de excelenţă foştilor jucători Adrian Bejan şi Dan Moraru. |url=https://www.agerpres.ro/sport-intern/2024/10/09/federatia-romana-de-baschet-a-acordat-titluri-de-excelenta-fostilor-jucatori-adrian-bejan-si-dan-moraru--1368051}}</ref>
==Selected awards and honors== Bejan has received multiple awards and honorary degrees.<ref name="Duke webpage" /><ref>{{cite web |title=Newsmakers |url=https://www.asme.org/about-asme/news/asme-news/newsmakers |publisher=American Society of Mechanical Engineers |access-date=11 December 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171212023911/https://www.asme.org/about-asme/news/asme-news/newsmakers |archive-date=12 December 2017}}</ref>
* Ralph Coats Roe Award, American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE), 2000{{cn|date=September 2025}} * Benjamin Franklin Medal, Franklin Institute, 2018{{cn|date=September 2025}} * Turkish Academy of Sciences Prize (2019){{cn|date=September 2025}}
==Selected publications== ;Articles * {{cite journal|last1=Bejan|first1=Adrian|title=The Concept of Irreversibility in Heat Exchanger Design: Counterflow Heat Exchangers for Gas-to-Gas Applications|journal=Journal of Heat Transfer |volume=99 |issue=3 |year=1977 |pages=374–380 |issn=0022-1481 |doi=10.1115/1.3450705}} * {{cite journal|last1=Bejan|first1=Adrian|title=A Study of Entropy Generation in Fundamental Convective Heat Transfer |journal=Journal of Heat Transfer|volume=101|issue=4|year=1979|pages=718–725|issn=0022-1481|doi=10.1115/1.3451063}} * Bejan, Adrian "Entropy Generation Minimization: The New Thermodynamics of Finite-Size Devices and Finite-Time Processes," Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 79, 1 February 1996, pp. 1191–1218. * {{cite journal |last1=Bejan |first1=Adrian |title=Constructal-theory network of conducting paths for cooling a heat generating volume |journal=International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer |volume=40 |issue=4 |year=1997 |pages=799–816 |issn=0017-9310 |doi=10.1016/0017-9310(96)00175-5|bibcode=1997IJHMT..4099813B }} * {{cite journal|last1=Bejan|first1=Adrian|last2=Lorente|first2=Sylvie |author-link2=Sylvie Lorente |title=The constructal law and the thermodynamics of flow systems with configuration|journal=International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer|volume=47|issue=14–16 |year=2004|pages=3203–3214|issn=0017-9310 |doi=10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2004.02.007|bibcode=2004IJHMT..47.3203B }} * {{cite journal |last1=Bejan |first1=Adrian |last2=Marden |first2=James H. |title=Unifying constructal theory for scale effects in running, swimming and flying |journal=Journal of Experimental Biology |volume=209 |issue=2 |year=2006 |pages=238–248 |issn= |doi=10.1242/jeb.01974 |pmid=16391346 |bibcode=2006JExpB.209..238B|s2cid=17376053 }} * {{cite journal|last1=Bejan|first1=Adrian|title=Evolution in thermodynamics|journal=Applied Physics Reviews |volume=4 |issue=1 |year=2017|pages=011305|issn=1931-9401|doi=10.1063/1.4978611|bibcode=2017ApPRv...4a1305B|doi-access=free}} * A. Bejan, U. Gunes and B. Sahin, [https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/european-review/article/abs/university-rankings-quality-size-and-permanence/F5A3CB3602883DE9CF2D45E828D52595 University Rankings: Quality, Size and Permanence], ''European Review'', Vol. 28, 2020, pp. 537-558. [https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/european-review/article/abs/university-rankings-quality-size-and-permanence/F5A3CB3602883DE9CF2D45E828D52595 doi: 10.1017/S106279872000006X] * A. Bejan, [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0303264723000928 Perfection is the enemy of evolution], ''BioSystems'', Vol. 229, 2023, 104917. [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0303264723000928 doi: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2023.104917] * A. Bejan, [https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsta.2022.0288 The principle underlying all evolution, biological, geophysical, social and technological], ''Philosophical'' ''Transactions A'', Vol. 381, 2023, 20220288. [https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsta.2022.0288 doi: 10.1098/rsta.2022.0288] * A. Bejan, Vascular flow design and predicting evolution, ''International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer'', Vol. 155, 2024, 107517. [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0735193324002793 doi: 10.1016/j.icheatmasstransfer.2024.107517] * A. Bejan, H. Almahmoud, U. Gunes, H.E. Fakhari and P. Mardanpour, [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1571064524000812 Evolution and irreversibility: Two distinct phenomena and their distinct laws of nature], ''Physics of Life Reviews'', Vol. 50, 2024, pp.103-116. [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1571064524000812 doi: 10.1016/j.plrev.2024.06.014] * A. Bejan, [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S030326472400162X The Physics of the Urge to Have Freedom], ''BioSystems,'' Vol. 243, 2024, 105277. [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S030326472400162X doi: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2024.105277] * A. Bejan, [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-68525-1#citeas Energy store & release facilitating movement in stick & slip friction, animal jump, and earthquake], ''Scientific Reports'', Vol. 14, 2024, 18832. [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-68525-1#citeas doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-68525-1] ;Books * {{cite book |last=Bejan |first=Adrian |title=Entropy Generation Through Heat and Fluid Flow |date=1982 |publisher=Wiley |isbn=978-0-471-09438-8}} * {{cite book |last=Bejan |first=Adrian |title=Convection Heat Transfer |year=1984 |publisher=Wiley |isbn=978-0-471-89612-8}}, updated in 1995, 2004, and 2013: {{cite book |last=Bejan |first=Adrian |title=Convection Heat Transfer |edition=4th |date=2013 |publisher=Wiley |isbn=978-0-470-90037-6}} * {{cite book |last= Bejan |first=Adrian |title=Advanced Engineering Thermodynamics |date=1988 |publisher=Wiley |isbn=978-0-471-62241-3}}, updated in 1997, 2006, and 2016: * {{cite book |last=Bejan |first=Adrian |title=Shape and Structure, from Engineering to Nature |edition=1 |year=2000|publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9780521793889}} * {{cite book |last=Bejan |first=Adrian |title=Advanced Engineering Thermodynamics |edition=4th |year=2016|publisher=Wiley |isbn=978-1-119-05209-8}} * {{cite book |last1=Nield |first1=Donald A. |author2=Adrian Bejan |title=Convection in Porous Media |date=1992 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-0387976518 |oclc=817768465}}, updated in 1999, 2006, 2017: {{cite book|last1=Nield |first1=Donald A. |author2=Adrian Bejan |title=Convection in Porous Media |edition=5th |date=2017 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-3-319-49562-0}} * {{cite book |last=Bejan |first=Adrian |title=Heat Transfer |date=1993 |publisher=Wiley |isbn=978-0-471-50290-6}} * {{cite book |last=Bejan |first=Adrian |title=Entropy Generation Minimization: The Method of Thermodynamic Optimization of Finite-Size Systems and Finite-Time Processes |year=1995 |publisher=CRC Press |isbn=978-0-8493-9651-9}} * {{cite book |last1=Bejan |first1=Adrian |author2=George Tsatsaronis |author3=Michael J. Moran |title=Thermal Design and Optimization |date=1996 |publisher=Wiley |isbn=978-0-471-58467-4}} * {{cite book |last= Bejan |first=Adrian |title=Porous and Complex Flow Structures in Modern Technologies |year=2004 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-0-387-20225-9}} * {{cite book|last1=Bejan|first1=Adrian|author2=Lorente, Sylvie|title=Design with Constructal Theory|date=2008|publisher=Wiley|isbn=978-0-471-99816-7}} * {{cite book |last1=Bejan |first1=Adrian |author2=J. Peder Zane |title=Design in Nature: How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, Technology, and Social Organizations |year=2012 |publisher=Doubleday |isbn=978-0-385-53461-1 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780385534611 }} * {{cite book|last= Bejan |first=Adrian |title=The Physics of Life: The Evolution of Everything |date=2016 |publisher=St. Martin's Press |isbn=978-1-250-07882-7}} *Bejan, Adrian (2020). ''Freedom and Evolution: Hierarchy in Nature, Society and Science''. New York: Springer. {{ISBN|978-3-030-34008-7}}. *Bejan, Adrian (2022). ''Time And Beauty: Why Time Flies And Beauty Never Dies.'' World Scientific. {{ISBN|978-9811246791}}. *Bejan, Adrian (2022). ''Heat Transfer: Evolution, Design and Performance.'' Wiley. {{ISBN|978-1-119-46743-4}}.
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==External links== * [http://mems.duke.edu/faculty/adrian-bejan Faculty web page] * {{cite web |title=Adrian Bejan - Constructal Law |url=http://mems.duke.edu/bejan-constructal-law |publisher=Duke University|date=6 March 2012 }}
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